An American IPA chart with sounds and examples. All the sounds of American English (General American): consonants, simple vowels and diphthongs. Interactive infographic + audio + PDF; easy to remember.

Well-structured content for people who want to learn American pronunciation. It's optimized for self-study, which means it's fun, simple, and very practical. We even have an IPA chart with a human face.

On this page, you will find charts with all American English consonant and vowel sounds. You can choose one of the two phonetic transcription systems — both use the symbols of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA):

All the sounds of American English (General American) with: consonants, simple vowels and diphthongs. The chart is interactive, click on the symbols and illustrations! The use of animals for consonants, and colors for vowels, makes this English phonemic chart easy to remember.

1 Chart based on information gathered from the following: Edwards, H.T. (1992). Applied phonetics: The sounds of American English. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group, Inc. Weinberger, S. (2015). Speech accent archive. George Mason University. Available from http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_native.php?function=detail&languageid=18

The phonemic chart contains the 44 sounds of spoken English. It is an excellent tool for both learning and teaching about English pronunciation, but there is no easy way to type the phonemes with a normal keyboard. Use this site to "type" the characters by …

Master American English pronunciation with the American English IPA chart! Learn how to pronounce key consonant and vowel sounds for clearer communication.

All the sounds of American English (General American) with: consonants, simple vowels and diphthongs. The chart is interactive, click on the symbols and illustrations! The use of animals for consonants, and colors for vowels, makes this English phonemic chart easy to remember.

Adrian Underhill's Interactive phonemic chart! This excellent teaching tool can be downloaded (see links below) and played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the phoneme set for American English.

This cheat sheet doesn't contain some frequent phonemes such as /t/, /d/, or /n/. Check our full IPA chart for American English with video examples